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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of transgress.

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Examples

  • Golan: Taking material out of the public domain transgresses the traditional contours.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • 'Fesses he' transgresses 'by Emily Smith as well as David K.

    Truth to Power: Professional Athlete Tiger Woods admin 2009

  • 'Fesses he' transgresses 'by Emily Smith as well as David K.

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • Ms. Goebl says the key to the fair's identity is the functional object, whether or not it transgresses conventional borders between design, architecture, art, craft and technology.

    Maturing Gracefully Emma Crichton-Miller 2011

  • Ms. Goebl says the key to the fair's identity is the functional object, whether or not it transgresses conventional borders between design, architecture, art, craft and technology.

    Maturing Gracefully Emma Crichton-Miller 2011

  • To show that any rule about how bills are passed transgresses these limits would seem to be quite a tall order.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Balkin on the “Slaughter Solution” 2010

  • The hero Max transgresses by using "free" magic bullets.

    Top 50 operas 2011

  • It's normalized politics to the point that anyone who transgresses against them becomes accused of politicizing sports.

    Christian Avard: All Sports Is Political: The Dave Zirin interview Christian Avard 2011

  • Adapted from a 16th century 30 page story by Madame de Lafayette, the film also features Lambert Wilson, perhapsthe most appealing of French actors see the very fine Of Gods and Men, as Chabanne, a soldier who transgresses military code by murdering a pregnant woman, driving his long blade through her belly, for which he renounces violence.

    Regina Weinreich: My Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Regina Weinreich 2011

  • I always get the sense that when intense partisans of genre fiction, SF especially, get wound up about "literary fiction" and its discontents, they usually associate such fiction with "realism," against which all genre fiction transgresses in one way or another.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

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